Indie publishing is not the only solution, but if you donât get that big break because the mainstream publishers are only publishing a select number of books, and yours doesnât happen to be what theyâre looking for, then submitting your work to a small press, or publishing your books yourself, may be your best option.
PURPLE is an acronym for (with our concerns in italics): P eak of crying: Crying starts at 2 weeks and can last to 5 months. This is consistently true only for some babies in the USA. It is not universal for babies in the USA or for babies around the world. U nexpected: Crying appears for no reason known to the parents.
Purple martins have a normal lifespan of about 5 to 7 years in the wild however; it's not out of the norm for them to reach 9 or 10 years of age. Banding studies have shown them to reach many more years than that, but that is the exception.